A2MP_PRAG Pragmatics

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2007
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Renata Povolná, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
prof. PhDr. Ludmila Urbanová, CSc. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Renata Povolná, Ph.D.
Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Mgr. Petra Hoydenová
Prerequisites
Pragmatics can be taken by any student of English, preferably after functional and communicative syntax, and must be taken by all students in all the programmes for secondary schools.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
1. Introduction to the study of pragmatics. Syntax, semantics, pragmatics. 2. Deixis and distance. Person, spatial, temporal deixis. Deixis and grammar. 3. Reference and inference. Referring expressions. Names and referents. The role of co-text and context. 4. Presupposition and entailment. Constancy under negation. Types of presupposition. Ordered entailments. 5. The cooperative principle. Maxims. Conversational implicature. Types of conversational implicature. 6. Conventional implicature. Conversation analysis. Features typical of spoken interaction. Conversational style. 7. Conversation and preference structure. Adjacency pairs. Preferrred and dispreferred social acts. Revision. 8. Speech acts and speech events. Performative hypothesis. Direct and indirect speech acts. 9. Speech act classification. 10. Politeness and interaction. Face wants. Positive and negative face. 11. Politeness. Positive and negative politeness. Solidarity and deference strategy. Terms of address. Presequences. 12. Discourse and culture. Discourse analysis. Cohesion and coherence. Cultural schemata. Frame. Script. Background knowledge. Pragmatic accent. 13. Revision. 14. Credits..
Syllabus
  • 1. Introduction to the study of pragmatics. 2. Deixis and distance. 3. Reference and inference. 4. Presupposition and entailment. 5. The cooperative principle. Conversational implicature. 6. Conventional implicature. 7. Conversation analysis. Features typical of spoken interaction. Conversational style. 8. Conversation and preference structure. 9. Speech acts and speech events. Performative hypothesis. 10. Direct and indirect speech acts. 11. Speech act classification. 12. Politeness and interaction. Positive and negative politeness. 13. Discourse and culture. Discourse analysis. 14. Revision. 15. Credits.
Literature
  • YULE, George. Pragmatics. First published. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996, xiv, 138. ISBN 0194372073. info
  • STENSTRÖM, Anna-Brita. An introduction to spoken interaction. 1st publ. London: Longman, 1994, ix, 238. ISBN 0582071305. info
  • THOMAS, Jenny. Meaning in interaction : an introduction to pragmatics. Harlow: Longman, 1995, xii, 224. ISBN 0582291518. info
  • BROWN, Gillian and George YULE. Discourse analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998, xii, 288. ISBN 0521284759. info
  • YULE, George. The study of language [Yule, 1996]. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, xiii, 294. ISBN 0-521-56851-X. info
Assessment methods (in Czech)
For getting a credit, students must past a test which consists of three topics, different for every student, taken from the subject matter studied during the term.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2007, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019.
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